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Con Air(1997)

R
| 1h 56min | Action, Thriller, Crime
3.4/5 (with 1,790 votes)

Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.

Directed by Simon West - With Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames, Colm Meaney, ...
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Inglourious Basterds(2009)

R
| 2h 33min | Drama, Thriller, War
4.1/5 (with 9,987 votes)

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

Directed by Quentin Tarantino - With Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, ...
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True Romance(1993)

R
| 2h | Action, Crime, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 1,153 votes)

Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

Directed by Tony Scott - With Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, ...
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Face/Off(1997)

R
| 2h 18min | Action, Crime, Science Fiction, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 2,359 votes)

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.

Directed by John Woo - With John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Gina Gershon, Dominique Swain, Alessandro Nivola, ...
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Enemy of the State(1998)

R
| 2h 12min | Action, Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 1,708 votes)

Corrupt National Security Agency official Thomas Reynolds has a congressman assassinated to assure the passage of expansive new surveillance legislation. When a videotape of the murder unknowingly ends up in the hands of Robert Clayton Dean, a labor lawyer and dedicated family man, heis framed for murder. With the help of ex-intelligence agent Edward "Brill" Lyle, Dean attempts to throw Reynolds off his trail and prove his innocence.

Directed by Tony Scott - With Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Jack Black, Gabriel Byrne, Regina King, Lisa Bonet, ...
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The American(2010)

R
| 1h 44min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 583 votes)

Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him.

Directed by Anton Corbijn - With George Clooney, Violante Placido, Thekla Reuten, Paolo Bonacelli, Filippo Timi, Anna Foglietta, ...
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Assassins(1995)

R
| 2h 12min | Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 662 votes)

Assassin Robert Rath arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent mobster, only to witness a rival hired gun complete the job for him -- with grisly results. Horrified by the murder of innocent bystanders, Rath decides to take one last job and then return to civilian life. But finding his way out of the world of contract killing grows ever more dangerous as Rath falls for his female target and becomes a marked man himself.

Directed by Richard Donner - With Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Julianne Moore, Muse Watson, Reed Diamond, Kelly Rowan, ...
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Broken Arrow(1996)

R
| 1h 48min | Action, Thriller, Adventure
3.0/5 (with 660 votes)

When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.

Directed by John Woo - With John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Delroy Lindo, Frank Whaley, Bob Gunton, ...
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Young Guns II(1990)

PG-13
| 1h 44min | Western, Adventure
3.2/5 (with 239 votes)

Three of the original five "young guns" — Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez), Jose Chavez y Chavez (Lou Diamond Phillips), and Doc Scurlock (Kiefer Sutherland) — return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to safety in Old Mexico while being trailed by a group of government agents led by Pat Garrett.

Directed by Geoff Murphy - With Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, William Petersen, James Coburn, ...

Assault on Precinct 13(2005)

R
| 1h 49min | Thriller
3.1/5 (with 462 votes)

On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.

Directed by Jean-François Richet - With Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Brian Dennehy, Maria Bello, Drea de Matteo, Matt Craven, ...
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The Gauntlet(1977)

R
| 1h 49min | Drama, Action, Crime, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 215 votes)

Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport a witness from Las Vegas. The witness turns out to be a belligerent prostitute with mob ties—and incriminating information regarding a high-ranking figure.

Directed by Clint Eastwood - With Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Mara Corday, William Prince, Bill McKinney, ...
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The Way of the Gun(2000)

R
| 1h 59min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 177 votes)

Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.

Directed by Christopher McQuarrie - With Ryan Phillippe, Benicio del Toro, Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs, Nicky Katt, James Caan, ...
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Extreme Prejudice(1987)

R
| 1h 41min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
3.1/5 (with 60 votes)

A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...

Directed by Walter Hill - With Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside, Clancy Brown, María Conchita Alonso, Mickey Jones, ...
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Heroes Shed No Tears(1984)

1h 33min | Action, War, Drama
3.1/5 (with 25 votes)

The Thai government hires a group of Chinese mercenaries to capture a powerful drug lord from the Golden Triangle. The mercenaries manage to capture the drug lord, but soon find themselves pursued by his forces, and the forces of a bitter Thai officer. The Chinese mercenaries are vastly outnumbered, and as their numbers begin to dwindle, their desperation pulls them into a corner as their enemies close in on them.

Directed by John Woo - With Eddy Ko, Kim Ho-kon, Austin Wai, Lam Ching-ying

Walker(1987)

R
| 1h 34min | Drama, History, Western
3.2/5 (with 29 votes)

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.

Directed by Alex Cox - With Ed Harris, Peter Boyle, Richard Masur, René Auberjonois, Keith Szarabajka, Xander Berkeley, ...

High Voltage(1997)

R
| 1h 35min | Action, Crime, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

After unknowingly robbing a money laundering operation the heist crew must avoid mobsters.

Directed by Isaac Florentine - With Shannon Lee, Antonio Sabàto Jr., William Zabka, Lochlyn Munro, Amy Smart, James Lew, ...
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Mean Guns(1997)

R
| 1h 50min | Action, Crime, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 32 votes)

One hundred mid- and low-level gangsters who are on their boss' bad side are locked inside a newly-built high-security prison, and given plenty of guns, ammo, and baseball bats, then told that the last survivor will get a suitcase with 10 million dollars.

Directed by Albert Pyun - With Christopher Lambert, Ice-T, Michael Halsey, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Thom Mathews, Jill Pierce, ...
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